Last Saturday, many people attended the third Vinho Verde Wine Experience in New York. This year, the event took place at Second […]

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Laurel Canyon is a new feature-length docuseries that will be shown on the EPIX premium television network, premiering May 31st at 9 PM ET/PT and concluding the following Sunday, June 7th at 9 PM ET/PT. The ‘place,’ Laurel Canyon is a twisting part of the Hollywood Hills where too many rockstars enjoyed care-free small-house living, creating what would be considered the L.A. sound in the mid to late 60’s and mid-’70s.

The short title track begins this baker’s dozen, a floaty synth opener featuring Reed’s high warble, leading into the big Billy Idol-sounding second track, “Strangers.” In the press on this new album, Reed tells of foregoing his acoustic for his “Old Strat and Les Paul Custom,” and one recognizes the heavy power chord influence early on with this second tune, and again on the sing-able, commercial vibe of “Twisted World.”

Reminded that “Cosplay is Not Consent” (thanks very much Comic-Con, as if I didn’t know) here men and women paint themselves, don various costumes (lots self-made) to be looked upon, have their picture taken, to be ogled. Confidence is high in the cosplay universe and simply put, everybody dressed at Comic Con, showing whatever of themselves they are showing, is hoping to be looked at.

Before hitting it huge with their 1973, The Dark Side Of The Moon album, ‘The Floyd’ was undergoing a great crisis of songwriting and identity trying to extricate itself from the influence of Pink Floyd’s leader, Syd Barrett. As infamous these days for his bout with madness and then reclusiveness post his Floyd years, a cult has grown up around Barrett, with many people divided, as Kopp makes clear, over what version of the band they like best, pre or post Barrett.

Vancouver-based industrial legends Front Line Assembly have returned with a full-length album, Wake Up The Coma. Featuring several guest artists, including D.A.F.’s […]

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Taking on the infamous Animal Farm, as The Seeing Place Theatre manages in this 2-hour plus, slog through one of the most famous literary allegories of all time, is surely a Herculean effort. Brandon Walker, who adapted the text, and co-directs; Erin Cronican (co-director as well as Executive Artistic Director of The Seeing Place); Laura Clare Browne, and William Ketter cavort, crawl, bray and buck through 28 different roles between them, in the small, yet well-appointed basement space of their East Village home.

We’re giving away one prize package to see the new film Indignation, now playing in New York, Los Angeles, and in select […]

Calling all fans of wine, Portuguese wine to be exact. For the third year in a row, The Vinho Verde Wine Experience […]

Yeah, I guess you can say I am making light of a dire situation. But beyond the illness and death, the good old COVID-19 seems to be giving us; there appears to be an ever-deeper divide being cut as both political parties take a position to prove whatever point they think best to prove when we are all at our weakest. I wish you the best of health and us all a speedy and safe way through our many current crises, from battling the bug to determining what closet to cleanout.